State v. DePew’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 592 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 659 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
36 federal appellate · 592 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Wainwright v. Witt · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 659 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the defendant chooses to make an unsworn statement in the penalty stage of a capital trial, the prosecution may comment that the defendant's statement has not been made under oath or affirmation, but such comment must be limited to reminding the jury that the defendant's statement was not made under oath, in contrast to the testimony of all other witnesses.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'photos of blood stains * * * do not have a shock value equivalent to a photograph of a corpse. The term 'gruesome' in the context of photographic evidence should, in most cases, be limited to depictions of actual bodies or body parts.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Pursuant to R.C. 2929.03(D)(1), the prosecutor, at the penalty stage of a capital trial, may introduce '*** any evidence raised at trial that is relevant to the aggravating circumstances the offender was found guilty of committing ***.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Simko
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.